Biography: David B. Sarwer, Ph.D.

During this time, Dr. Sarwer also provided clinical supervision and mentoring to approximately 10 Ph.D. candidates, as well as five junior faculty members from CWED, on the psychosocial evaluation and management of bariatric surgery patients. Building on his work with plastic surgery patients, Dr. Sarwer's first studies were on the body image and appearance concerns of women with obesity. Graph David B. Sarwer, Ph.D., was born in Skokie, Illinois, on January 4, 1968, and was raised by his adoptive parents, Rivian and Sam Sarwer, along with his sister, Linda, in Mt. Prospect, Illinois. Dr. Sarwer has published several empirical papers, reviews, and book chapters on the psychosocial issues in persons with extreme obesity who undergo bariatric surgery and then present to plastic surgeons for body contouring procedures. [Extracted from the article]